Talladega County man sentenced for mailing hoax anthrax letters

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — A federal judge in Birmingham has sentenced a Talladega County man to
four years and three months in prison for mailing a series of hoax
anthrax letters last year,

U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.said
Thursday that U.S. District Judge Abdul Kallon sentenced 40-year-old
Clifton Lamar Dodd of Lincoln on 23 counts of mailing letters that
contained white powder that could reasonably have been perceived as the
biological toxin anthrax.

Dodd pleaded guilty to the charges just before his trial was to begin in July.

One of the threat letters was delivered to U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby's office in March of 2010.